An "occurrence" is a set of connected criminal events which constitute an occurrence report. The occurrence counts here are distinct from 'incidents' and 'victims' as reported by Statistics Canada.

The crime types used here are for EPS's 4 Property Crime and 4 Violent Crime Indicators only. Hence, not every type of property crime or violent crime incident is shown here (e.g,. kidnapping and theft under $5,000 are excluded here). This also excludes criminal code violations that fall under Other Criminal Code Violations, Federal Statute Violations, and Criminal Code Traffic Violations.

The criminal code that is used here is based on the most serious violation of the occurrence. For example, if a break & enter occurred that involved an aggravated assault, only the aggravated assault would be counted. This follows the standard for how Statistics Canada reports on crime throughout Canada.

Recruit Applicants are the number of sworn recruit applicants for new recruit class, or the Experienced Officer Program, that have passed the eight stage application process. Statistics here include potential "reactivations", where an applicant completed the process previously, was temporarily deferred, and has completed the process again.

This dataset provides EPS's Crime Severity Index and Weighted Clearance Rate statistics. Figures provided here are based on in-house calculations with small measurement errors compared to what is produced by Statistics Canada.

The Crime Severity Index (CSI) assesses the severity of criminality by measuring both the volume of police-reported criminal incidents and weighting for more severe crime, while factoring for the level of population. The CSI is available for any city or region across Canada, and is indexed to equal 100 in Canada for the year 2006.

The Weighted Clearance Rate (WCR) measures the percentage of EPS-reported criminal incidents that are cleared by charge, or cleared by "other" (e.g., using the Youth Criminal Act, the accused is deceased), weighted by crime severity.

Both measures here account for all criminal code violations, which can be categorized at a high-level as: Violent Crime, Property Crime, Other Criminal Code Violations, Federal Statute Violations, and Criminal Code Traffic Violations. The counting methodology here follows that of Statistics Canada by only counting the most serious violation for a criminal incident, and counting the number of victims for violent-based offences.

Statistics Canada's Crime Severity Index of the top 20 largest Canadian Cities.

The Crime Severity Index (CSI) assesses the severity of criminality by measuring both the volume of police-reported criminal incidents and weighting for more severe crime, while factoring for the level of population. The CSI is indexed to equal 100 in Canada for the year 2006.

This dataset shows the average speed of answer (ASA) for EPS non-emergency calls, as well as the associated call volume of non-emergency calls answered by a call evaluator.

EPS Non-emergency ASA is counted once a caller has gone through the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system until a call evaluator answers the call.

The EPS’s Non-Emergency Line can be reached at 780-423-4567 or #377 from an Edmonton mobile. More information on this topic, including what kind of crimes should be reported to the EPS Non-Emergency Line can be found at:

This dataset provides statistics on historical missing person files that is the responsibility of EPS. A historical missing person is someone who has been reported missing 90+ days. Statistics here also include several files where human remains have been found and have yet to be identified.

Concluded Historical Missing Person files are those where the historical missing person is located (alive or deceased) or new evidence suggests the missing person is in another policing jurisdiction - in which case investigative responsibility is transferred to the other policing jurisdiction.

The number of concluded files and added files up to the end of 2015 are annual figures; figures in 2016 are based on a yearly quarter.

Statistics Canada's Weighted Clearance Rate for the top 20 largest Canadian Cities.

The Weighted Clearance Rate (WCR) measures the percentage of police reported criminal incidents that are cleared by charge, or cleared by "other" (e.g., using the Youth Criminal Act, the accused is deceased), weighted by crime severity.